The East Coast gets blasted by devastating storms. Damaging winds and heavy rains knock out power for thousands of people, triggering massive travel delays from New England to Florida and, in the Midwest, dangerous tornadoes barrel through the northern plains.

The new movie "Captain Phillips" opens this Friday. It's a drama about the real-life ordeal of Captain Richard Phillips, who was the commander of a cargo vessel that was overrun by pirates off the coast of Somalia in 2009.

Phillips was taken off his ship and held hostage for five days on a small boat. He's played by Tom Hanks. The movie portrays Phillips as a hero who saves his ship and his crew. But some members of that crew claim the true Captain Richard Phillips was anything but heroic. CNN's Drew Griffin has the story.